Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono by David Sheff for Playboy Magazine, August/September 1980 (published January 1981). Sheff conducted a long interview with John and Yoko as part of the pair's promotion for the "Double Fantasy" album. The interview is notable for John questioning why "Nobody ever said anything about Paul's having a spell on me or my having one on Paul!"; commentary on the song "Glass Onion" as a farewell to Paul; reference to turning Paul away at the door of the Dakota; praise for Paul's single "Coming Up"; extensive discussion about the pair's contributions to various Beatles songs; admitting that the claim he made in "Lennon Remembers" that the pair stopped writing together in 1962 wasn't true (with an anecdote about writing "I Want to Hold Your Hand" together); playing down the impact of the song "How Do You Sleep"; comments that Paul "died creatively" towards the end of the Beatles; reminiscing about childhood and his relationship with his mother and aunts and how different that was to Paul's experience; his interpretation of "Hey Jude"; reference to "Paul and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what"; accusing Paul of "subconscious sabotage" when recording John's songs; musings on the end of the 1960s legacy and what the future holds.

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Source: The Beatles Interview Database website; Tumblr user amoralto.